The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-07-15
BILL NYE AT COMFY ISLAND.

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Iio Notices Some Strange Things Down by
!3.'g tho Senshore. 7 M
Nec York World, July II. 51 y *
Yesterday was dark, red.lotter day for
Coney Island. The morning was gor.
geous, and along about l O'Clock heavy
shower raised the lake 30 that bathing was
good all the rest Of tho day.
A great many people went down there
to rest and sec how much they could lift.
l notice that people who 70 away on an
excursion for rest most always look more
rested when they goaway than when they
come back. '&'Rsg IIs'".''-Y' :"
At Coney Island great msuy laboring
people get rested by seeing how much
they can strike at i've cents per strike.
You can get anything there almost for Ave
cents-a sandwich, glass Of beer, elice
OF watermelon, ride on the Brighton
stage, o whack at the strength tester. or
anything almost that heart can wish. from
breeza to bilious collie, from flexible
sandwich to strangulatsd hernia,
1t afforded mo much pleasure to watch
the bathers pump up and down in the
dark blue sea and spattet each other with
water. Beauty was not very plenty yes.
terday on the beach. Abide from tall.
reddish gentleman from this city. whose
name ought to be Essu aud who had mosa
OH tho north eide OF his limbs. there were
very few fine looking men, and 80 when
| went in 1t attracted general attention,
The ladieu were mostly OF uniform style
Of beauty,and not wildly beautiful at The
time was in. Il heard that the best look.
ing ones waited, however, until I had
gone home. f7I.s 0Yy .offgl \ -
Bathing costumes seem to be similar
this year to what they have always been.
In stockings you occasionally see pair in
odd shades liko baby elephan,s' breath or
smothered shrimp pink, with embroider.
ed soit.shell crabs on them: but they are
mostly black. -
The Oldest thing I saw in stockings yes.
terday, think, WAS an artificial foot.
They are still using the same hacks at
Coney Island that were offered to Wash.
ington in which to croas the Delaware.
He, however, decided to skate across. for
these hacks were very old even at that
time. ia5s IA A. n -
The wild Woman OF the Catekills., ia
still on exhibition at the museum. Girls
who are little inclined to be wild will do
we'll 10 see her. They would never be wild
any more. .szl.5. u ll.si-3
/. 1 then bathed. I feel quite proud Of
my auit, bause 1t does not bag at the
knees. This, l presume, ia because the
capacity Of bathing suit for baggage is
comparatively limited, and IS mine seems
to bag everywhere else 1t cannot find time
to bag at the knees. u.s., ;..Iisi
Leaving my clothes, my conscientious
sctuples, and my teeth In charge OF nv
valet, I msdly wadod out to meet nv
doom. II | had been going out to meet
anybody else but moist doom would
have dressed differently. heard several
low, wealthy people say, sect onto the
gun.wiper going out TO monkey with the
tide" One Notwithstanding, with her
bathtng.trousers rolled up at the bottom
SO that they could not get wet, said in a
tinkling voice: There is man who ought
TO have sinker tied to him. he will
never drown, but if land breeze springs
up pretty strong he will drift long way
out to sea" $3.50
l did not tell her that it WAS my inten.
ton to drift out to sea, because | was not
acquainted with her, but that was really
What driited out for. -
After l had inhaled all the salt water
that thought was good for mo reti,ed
from the enrf. l then dressed myself and
atrolled along the strand. There is no
charge for strolling along the etrsnd. The
poorest man in New York, armed with
large, warty club to keep OF the buuko
men, may utroll along the strand with
perfect safety. h. Mp,
Presently, ! came upon young woman
who was citing by herself, gazing out to
sea and weeping. At fret I thought she
wae trying because some one had stolen
her clothes while ghe WAS in the eurf, but
I soon saw that l was wrong. -, -a
She had her bathing suit on and was
Stumbling and stsbbipg large holes in the
sand with her toes. 18 salgait tE.
Pardon me-, I said, with the air Of a
man OF the world, 'has you train gone
away and left you, or have you swallowed
one end Of breaker, rs 1 did ?" - i. s,}5:zf
"Please do not make game Of me, air."
she naid, at the same time shrinking back.
ut is nothing that could in tho least in.
teleap yous w AWAY 81 sr. 81 ~ rs
IL" said |, huskily. ~ cannot 70 away
until the next boat and I would be ticklsd
slmoat to death il l could participate in
your sorrow. have no card with me,
but am connected with the press and
it would be better to give the story to me
and let mo got it in your exact language
than to have it garbled by the other pa
| pers. Where do YOU reside ?'' fi6,i.i,.l5.
II reside at presentin New York." she
said, gulping down sob three sizes too
large for her, ''and l am utterly alone.n h
Swell, why dom. you girls in New York
who are utterly slone have reunion this
summer at the Polo Grounds? I have
not been in New York very long, but
since I've been there it scems to me that
you and the other utterly lonely girls
have taken the town. hat brought you
to New York, may I ask 2" 3.t 3. ',5,@
. came thele to obtain employ ment,
and it is all 80 strange and so harsh
and go heartless there, She then took
off her ollskin bonnet and wept it almost
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